One of my favorite newspapers, the Washington Times, has a commentary piece today written by Austin Bay, which is an eye-opener—for liberals.
Conservatives and regular visitors of this web site are already fully apprised of the details and sentiments contained therein. Liberals won’t read it, and that’s why they’re still liberals and not smart, forward-thinking principled conservatives like us.
Nonetheless, here are a few snippets:
A political specter haunts North America—the specter of the world’s next failed state.
We can still call it Canada, at least for a couple years. And who knows, like news of Mark Twain’s demise, my cheeky pessimism may be greatly exaggerated. Our northern neighbor’s polyglot populace of beer drinkers, peaceniks, Mounties and socialists may yet dump their crooked politicians and craft a new, more robust deal with Quebecois separatists.
If you don’t know about Canada’s crooked politicians, you’re not alone. Democracy and free speech are breaking out in Beirut, but they’re both taking a beating in Ontario. The Canadian government has a press clamp on an investigation into the ruling Liberal Party’s “Adscam” kickback scheme.
A “judicial publication ban” is the term. It may soon rank with the Watergate rhetoric like “modified limited hang-out.” Canadian Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader Paul Martin is implicated in the Adscam fiasco, and he’s starting to look like the northland’s Richard Nixon.
He goes on to sketch what Canada could look like if things go according to the direction the Liberals and the NDP are taking us:
Here’s a thumbnail sketch: Say Quebec becomes a separate European-style nation-state—a “people” with cultural, linguistic, religious and historical identity (never mind the objections of Mohawk and Cree Indians in Quebec). Quebec has the people and resources to make a go of it, though the economic price for its egotism will be stiff. British Columbia also has “nation-state” assets: access to the sea, strong industrial base, raw materials and an educated population.
Oil-producing Alberta might join the United States and instantly find common political ground with Alaska, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma. Canada’s struggling Atlantic provinces might find statehood economically attractive and extend the New England coastline. A rump Canada consisting of “Greater Ontario”—with remaining provinces as appendages—might keep the Maple Leaf flag aloft. As for poor, isolated Newfoundland: Would Great Britain like to reacquire a North American colony?
Read the whole thing (2 minutes).
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